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In spite of Lydia Rogers's supposed contract with the Devil, she does not seem to have been brought into court. Strange and Terrible Newes from Cambridge, being A true Relation of the Quakers bewitching of Mary Philips ... into the shape of a Bay Mare, riding her from Dinton towards the University.
Shall this lovely maid be given to a perverter of the Scriptures, to an inheritor of the fire, to one of a race that would not bestow on their fellow-men so much as the speck out of a date-stone? It were a shame upon a True-Believer." Urged thus the Turk offered another five Philips, but with obvious reluctance.
Steele, in some papers of the Guardian, had praised Ambrose Philips as the pastoral writer that yielded only to Theocritus, Virgil, and Spenser. Pope, who had also published pastorals, not pleased to be overlooked, drew up a comparison of his own compositions with those of Philips, in which he covertly gave himself the preference, while he seemed to disown it.
yet, beautiful in its purity as it seems, it is indeed the scene of the following true and terrible tale: Philips Grey was one of the most active young shepherds in the parish of Traquair. For two or three years he had carried off the medal given at the St.
Philips was a zealous Whig, and therefore easily found access to Addison and Steele; but his ardour seems not to have procured him anything more than kind words, since he was reduced to translate the "Persian Tales" for Tonson, for which he was afterwards reproached, with this addition of contempt, that he worked for half-a-crown.
She might not love me it was presumptuous to suppose she did but at least I held a place in her regard. That was the thought I carried with me down-stairs, and it stayed pleasantly with me till I fell asleep in spite of the pain in my arm. About nine o'clock I was awakened by a knock on the door. Philips had brought me dinner on a tray. His eye would not meet mine.
In 1715 while he was engaged in translating the Iliad, he met Addison at a coffee-house. Philips and Budgell were there; but their sovereign got rid of them, and asked Pope to dine with him alone. After dinner Addison said that he lay under a difficulty which he wished to explain. "Tickell," he said, "translated some time ago the first book of the Iliad.
But it is very certain that, of all the high parties concerned, Alexander Farnese was the least reprehensible for the over-throw of Philips hopes. No man could have been more judicious as it has been sufficiently made evident in the course of this narrative in arranging all the details of the great enterprise, in pointing out all the obstacles, in providing for all emergencies.
"Most of the fellows thought it rather strange." "And said so, no doubt?" said the master, looking abstractedly at his finger-nails. "H'm!" said Philips, feeling uncomfortable at this thrust. "They may have." "You see, Philips," said Taylor, gently, "there ought to have been no quizzing of Todd, for a contribution to a matter like this ought to be entirely voluntary most emphatically so, I think.
"A spy," he roared. "A spy right in the heart of our organization!" He shook his head. The door opened and two burly Solar Guardsmen entered, saluted, and turned to flank the doorway, hands on their paralo-ray pistols. The private secretary of E. Philips James shuffled in slowly, followed by two more guards. Walters stepped up to the thin, intense young man and glared at him.
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